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Description
This application claims priority from Chinese Patent Application Serial No. 200610075679.6 filed Apr. 19, 2006, the disclosure of which, including the specification, drawings and claims, is incorporated herein by reference in its entirety.
The present disclosure relates to a charge transfer device and method, it further relates to a touch sensing device and method which are based on the charge transfer device and method, and the device and method can be applied in a variety of integrated touch key-presses or switches.
At present, most touch key-presses are realized by using the method of capacitance measurement. The conventional method of the existing capacitive touch key-presses is to measure the charge on the unknown capacitor to determine the value of the unknown capacitance. The disadvantages of this method include poor stability and the likelihood that the quantity of the charge on the unknown capacitor will change when it is disturbed by the environment, such that it always can not reflect the value of the capacitance precisely. Further disadvantages include high costs and the fact that, the measurement of the charge needs a high precision ADC (Analog-Digital-Convertor) which has a complex circuit construction, which further increases costs.
The present disclosure aims at providing a touch key-press with the advantages of low cost, low power consumption, adjustable sensitivity and low error trigger ratio.
Furthermore, this disclosure provides a charge transfer method which comprises charging a first capacitor periodically at regular intervals and transferring the charge accumulated on the first capacitor to a second capacitor periodically at the above time interval.
Other object and features of the present disclosure will become more readily apparent from the following detailed description of the preferred embodiment taken in conjunction with the accompanying drawings.
The accompanying drawings, which are incorporated in and constitute a part of specification, illustrate an exemplary embodiment of the present invention and, together with the general description given above and the detailed description of the preferred embodiment given below, serve to explain the principles of the present invention.
While the claims are not limited to the illustrated embodiments, an appreciation of various aspects of the present invention is best gained through a discussion of various examples thereof. Referring now to the drawings, illustrative embodiments will be described in detail. Although the drawings represent the embodiments, the drawings are not necessarily to scale and certain features may be exaggerated to better illustrate and explain an innovative aspect of an embodiment. Further, the embodiments described herein are not intended to be exhaustive or otherwise limiting or restricting to the precise form and configuration shown in the drawings and disclosed in the following detailed description.
The sensing point 1 for sensing the proximity-related capacitance between a different environment and the ground (gnd) is to produce a sensing capacitor Cs. The sensing point or spot 1 is formed by a PCB wire which can be made into shapes as shown in
The capacitance of the sensing capacitor Cs produced at the sensing point 1 is very small and the quantity of the transferred charge each time is small, so the measurement of charge is difficult. This disclosure provides a charge transfer device 2 which can accumulate the charge, and the sensing point 1 is charged continuously and the charge on it is transferred and converted into voltage which can be measured.
The charge transfer device 2 comprises a first switch S1, a second switch S2 and a capacitor Cc 21. The first switch S1 and the second switch S2 which can be realized using a MOS (Metal-Oxide Semiconductor) tube, triode, relay or optical coupler are controlled by a non-overlapping clock signal as shown in
Steps of related calculation are as follows:
Upon consumption that the charging voltage of the capacitor Cs is VDD, then the quantity of the charge is CsVDD, therefore, after the charging and discharging for the first time, the equation (Cs+Cc)V1=CsVDD is gained, where V1 is the voltage on the Cc.
The working process is as follows: when the switch S1 closes, the sensing capacitor Cs at the sensing point 1 is charged through the charging voltage VDD; when the switch S1 opens, the switch S2 closes because of the control of the non-overlapping clock signal, so the charge on the capacitor Cs at the sensing point 1 is transferred to the capacitor Cc 21. After the charge transfer of several periods, the charge accumulated on the capacitor Cs at the sensing point 1 is completely transferred to the capacitor Cc 21.
The charge on the capacitor Cc 21 is converted into voltage which is put into the comparator 3, and the input end of the comparator 3 is the reference voltage Vref which is compared with the voltage VCc on the capacitor Cc 21, the result of the comparison produces a control signal to the counter 4. The reference voltage Vref is realized by the voltage-dividing resistors R1 and R2 as shown in the
When the comparator 3 overturns, it produces a turnover signal and sends it to the third switch S3 and the counter 4.
After receiving the turnover signal, the third switch S3 closes to discharge the second capacitor and opens after the discharge.
After receiving the turnover signal, the counter 4 stops counting and sends the count value to the processor 5;
After receiving the count value, the processor 5 judges whether the sensing point is in a touch state, at the same time, it returns a signal to clear the counter, and then the counter starts to count again.
In this embodiment, the reference voltage Vref produced at the input end of the comparator 3 is designed to be less than half of the charging voltage of each time, namely less than VDD/2. This is because if the reference voltage is too high, certain system error will be introduced.
If touch action happens, the sensing point 1 will sense the capacitance between the body and the ground, likewise, according to the above-described method, the charge is accumulated on the weak sensing capacitor Cs and converted into voltage VCc on the capacitor Cc 21 continuously. If VCc exceeds the reference voltage Vref, the comparator 3 overturns and sends a stopping signal to the counter 4, then counter 4 stops counting and obtains a new count value which is the new charging count value of the capacitor.
The count value of the counter 4 is entered into the processor 5, the processor 5 calculates the difference between the input count value and the non-touching charging count value set in advance. If the difference exceeds the predetermined standard difference, the processor 5 judges that the sensing point is in a touching state. One of skill in the art in this field can understand that this standard difference can be set according to the hardware parameters of the device.
Therefore, whether there is touching action is judged by detecting the change of the count value of the counter.
The sensing capacitor Cs produced at the sensing point 1 varies with temperature and humidity of the environment. Therefore, the charging time of the sensing point 1 changes accordingly. So, the factual non-touching charging count value Tnkn changes slowly with the change of the environment. However, if this difference of change exceeds a standard difference, touching action is mistaken. And for the same reason, in a touching state, the environment still affects the count value of the counter, which changes the value of the counter into the non-touching value.
In order to guarantee accurate triggering and higher sensitivity, the change of the sensing capacitor Cs produced at the sensing point 1 is evaluated, and the non-touching charging value is adjusted continuously, and the sensitivity of the standard difference both in a touching state and in a non-touching state are set.
Therefore, an optimized solution is that the touching sensing device of the second embodiment has self-adapting ability. The judgment of the touching action is done by refreshing the non-touching count value and the touching count value continuously through calculating the difference of charging time of two times on the sensing point 1 of two times and comparing the difference with a predetermined threshold.
In the second embodiment, a solution is provided that the non-touching charging count value Tnkn always varies with the change of environment to make the new set non-touching charging count value Tnkn always equals or approaching the factual one to realize the self-adapting of the sensing point.
The related equation is
Where Tnkn is the new non-touching charging count value, Tnkn 0 is the last non-touching charging count value and Tnkn 1 is the current non-touching charging count value.
Likewise, the self-adapting equation of the touching charging count value is
where Tnkn is the new touching charging count value, Tnkn 0 is the last touching charging count value and Tnkn 1 is the current touching charging count value.
In order to achieve the above object, when the comparator overturns and the counter stops counting, the processor 5 of the touching sensing device performs the following steps as shown in the
In Step 1, the count value of the counter 4 is read and saved.
In Step 2, the count value of the counter is compared to the previous value of the counter to determine if the count value exceeds the last value of the counter; if so, the process proceeds to step 3 if not, the process proceeds to step 4.
In Step 3, a determination is made as to whether the sensing point was in a touching state the last time. If so, the process proceeds to step 5; if not, a self-adapting refreshing of the non-touching count value using
is employed to set the new sensing point state to be a non-touching state. The process then returns to step 1.
At Step 4, a determination is made as to whether the sensing point is in touching state. If so, the sensing point touching count value is refreshed with a new count value, then returns to step 1. If not, the process performs step 6.
At Step 5, the difference between the current count value and the last touching count value, is calculated, and a determination is made as to whether the difference exceeds a predetermined non-touching state standard difference. If so, the sensing point is in a touching state and the process returns to step 1. If not, the sensing point is in a non-touching state, then the non-touching count value is refreshed with the current count value and the process returns to step 1.
At Step 6, the difference between the current count value and the last touching count value is calculated, and a determination is made as to whether the difference exceeds the predetermined touching state standard difference. If so, the sensing point is in the touching state, and the process refreshes the touching count value with the current count value directly. If not, the sensing point is in a non-touching state, and the process returns to step 1.
In the above-described embodiments, in practice, the scale of the counter is 100˜65500. The scale of the touching standard difference and the non-touching standard difference is 10-500. In one embodiment, the touching standard difference is set to be 100 and the non-touching standard difference is set to be 90.
The foregoing description of various embodiments of the invention has been presented for purposes of illustration and description. It is not intended to be exhaustive or to limit the invention to the precise embodiments disclosed. Numerous modifications or variations are possible in light of the above teachings. The embodiments discussed were chosen and described to provide the best illustration of the principles of the invention and its practical application to thereby enable one of ordinary skill in the art to utilize the invention in various embodiments and with various modifications as are suited to the particular use contemplated. All such modifications and variations are within the scope of the invention as determined by the appended claims when interpreted in accordance with the breadth to which they are fairly, legally, and equitably entitled.
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